वासुदेव उवाच
उपासितास् ते राधेय ब्राह्मणा वेदपारगाः ॥
तत्त्वार्थं परिपृष्टाश् च नियतेनानसूयया ॥
त्वम् एव कर्ण जानासि वेदवादान् सनातनान् ॥
त्वं ह्य् एव धर्मशास्त्रेषु सूक्ष्मेषु परिनिष्ठितः ॥
कानीनश् च सहोढश् च कन्यायां यश् च जायते ॥
वोढारं पितरं तस्य प्राहुः शास्त्रविदो जनाः ॥
सो ऽसि कर्ण तथा जातः पाण्डोः पुत्रो ऽसि धर्मतः ॥
निग्रहाद् धर्मशास्त्राणाम् एहि राजा भविष्यसि ॥
पितृपक्षे हि ते पार्था मातृपक्षे च वृष्णयः ॥
द्वौ पक्षाव् अभिजानीहि त्वम् एतौ पुरुषर्षभ ॥
vāsudeva uvāca
upāsitās te rādheya brāhmaṇā vedapāragāḥ ||
tattvārthaṃ paripṛṣṭāś ca niyatenānasūyayā ||
tvam eva karṇa jānāsi vedavādān sanātanān ||
tvaṃ hy eva dharmaśāstreṣu sūkṣmeṣu pariniṣṭhitaḥ ||
kānīnaś ca sahoḍhaś ca kanyāyāṃ yaś ca jāyate ||
voḍhāraṃ pitaraṃ tasya prāhuḥ śāstravido janāḥ ||
so 'si karṇa tathā jātaḥ pāṇḍoḥ putro 'si dharmataḥ ||
nigrahād dharmaśāstrāṇām ehi rājā bhaviṣyasi ||
pitṛpakṣe hi te pārthā mātṛpakṣe ca vṛṣṇayaḥ ||
dvau pakṣāv abhijānīhi tvam etau puruṣarṣabha ||
Vasudeva said: 'O Radheya, you have honored the brahmins learned in the Vedas, and without envy, with restraint, you have questioned them closely about the true meaning of truth. You yourself, O Karna, know the eternal teachings of the Vedas; you are firmly grounded in the subtle teachings of dharma. Knowers of the shastras say that a son born of an unmarried girl, and a son conceived before marriage and brought into the husband's house, both have as father the one who took that girl as his wife. So it is with you, O Karna: by dharma you are the son of Pandu. By the ruling of the scriptures of dharma, come — you shall become king. On the father's side the Parthas are yours, and on the mother's side the Vrishnis are yours: recognize these two lineages as your own, O best of men.'
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Krishna appeals to Karna through his own knowledge of the shastras. He does not press with force, but shows that by the recognized norms of dharma Karna belongs to the house of Pandu and is bound to both the Pandavas and the Vrishnis. The truth of his origin becomes here a moral summons.